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• Title:Listening to our ancestors : the art of native life along the north pacific coast / introduction by chief Robert Joseph.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Joseph, Robert, 1939-
  National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
  National Geographic Society (U.S.)
  
• Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in association with National Geographic, ©2005.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: E78.N78 L58 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-28-2024
    

  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) Canadian exhibitions (non-circulating)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: E78.N78 L58 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: E78.N78 L58 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Material culture--Northwest Coast of North America.
  Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.
  Indian philosophy--Northwest Coast of North America.
  Indian cosmology.
  Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.
  
• Description:191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:Publisher description: Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and artwork. Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast bowls, and elaborately decorated boxes made by the native people of the North Pacific Coast have long been recognized as masterworks of art. Here, in a series of community self-portraits, cultural figures from eleven Northwest Coast nations discuss the ways in which these masterpieces, as well as everyday tools and utensils from the museum's collections, connect them with their forbears, who made and used these beautiful objects. Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Robert Joseph and the community curators contrast the approach anthropologists and art historians have taken to the treasures of the Northwest with Native people's perspective on their cultural legacy. In addition, Mary Jane Lenz explores the Northwest as a crossroads of native and non-native worlds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when many of these works were collected, and today.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references p. (186-188).
  
• ISBN:0792241908
  9780792241904
  
• Contents:The art of native life
  An elder's perspective
  Coast Salish: the beauty of everyday things
  Makah: all that our past has generously bestowed
  Nuu-chah-nulth: a nation always praying
  Kwakwaka'wakw: our customs, our ways
  Heiltsuk: uplifting our people
  Nuxalk: these treasures have kept our culture alive
  Tsimshian: the strength of the people
  Nisga'a: I will send you a messenger
  Gitxsan: words of wisdom
  Haida: we carry on our ancestors' voices
  Tlingit: things we will remember
  Learning to see from within.